Mode of constructing paper bags



.PATENT OFFICE.

LUTHER O. OROWELL, OF WEST DENNIS, MASSACHUSETTS.

MODE OF CONSTRUCTING PAPER BAGS, 80C.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 65,176, dated May 28, 1867.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, LUTHER C. CROWELL, of West Dennis, in the county of Barnstable, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Mode of Constructing Paper Bags and Vrappers; and `I do hereby declarethat the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, inwhich- Figure l is aplan view ofthe form of the paper before being made into a bag of my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of my invention, ready for use. Fig. 3 is a perspective viewof the same, before the operation of closing is complete. Fig. et is a similar view of the saine, after the operation of closing. Figs. 5 and 6 are views of another mode of applying my invention.

Similar letters of reference in the six views indicate corresponding parts.

. The invention consists in so combining thin strips of iron or tin with paper bags or wrapping paper as to facilita-te the filling of the same, and, by a slight manipulation, se-

curely confining the contents, thereby dispensing with cords, strings, or paste.

To enable others to make and use my invention as I have planned, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation, with reference to the drawings.

Fig. lis aview of the paper or other material, cut in a convenient form for inaking'a bag of my invention. A is a thin str1p of tin or iron. The lip B is pasted over and incloses the strip of tin or folder A. The edge S S is now pasted to the opposite edge T T, the concave corners O O forming ahalf-circular opening 5 the end or ends P P are also pasted to the body of the bag, when my invention is ready for use, as shown at Fig. 2. This view also shows the manner in which the bag should be grasped when it is desirable to use the same-the thumb upon the inner side of lip B and folder A; the remaining iingers On moving the upon the outside of the same.

little and index ngers, and keeping the remaining fingers rigid, the folder may be bent as desired, causing the mouth of the bag to open, as this view exhibits. After receiving its contents, the edges B D are brought together and folded down over each other, until the folder is upon the contents, as shown at Fig. 3. The ends of the folder R R are now bent in upon the body of the bag, as shown at Fig. 4, when the bag will be securely closed. When it is desirable to open the bag, the reverse manipulation will produce the desired effect.

Strips of tin or iron may be pasted to squares of wrapping paper, and by various modes of manipulation be made to produce the same eifect as the mode herein described, as shown at Figs. 5 and 6.

Having thus fully described my invention, and two proposed modes of operating the same, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is not the attachment, broadly, of strips of metal to bags as a fastener, as I am aware of its general use in combination with locks, hooks and eyes, &c., as in mail-bags, valises, and various other bags; neither do I claim having discovered its utility as a substitute for strings or cords, as strips of iron are in general use forconiinin g bars of metal and other substances.

1. The combination ofthe strips of tin or iron with wrapping-paper or its equivalent, when cemented, pasted, or otherwise securely connected together, and used as a self-sealing wrapper, as a new article of manufacture.

2. The paper bag M, in combination with the opening O and thin strip of tin, or folder A, constructed and operating substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein shown and described.

LUTHER O. OROWELL.

Witnesses:

ALLEN B. CRoWnLL, SETH S. GRooKEn. 

